Dr Brooke Patterson – Reducing injuries and improving performance in women and girl’s sport

Physio Foundations

This week on Physio Foundations Zuzana and I continued our conversation with Dr Brooke Patterson from the La Trobe Sports and Exercise Medicine research centre about the Prep-to-Play injury prevention program and improving performance in women and girl’s sport.

Both Brooke and Zuzana have extensive experience as clinicians, players and researchers in football and women’s sport and this was a great conversation, with tips and resources for clinicians working in all types of sport.

You can follow Brooke and Zuzana on Twitter @knee_howells and @Drzuzi

This is a discussion aimed at health professionals and health professional students. Always seek the guidance of a qualified health professional with any questions you may have regarding your health or a medical condition.

In this episode:

• 0:00 Welcome back Brooke
• 1:36 What is the Prep-to-Play program?
• 2:40 Training 60 physios to deliver an injury prevention program
• 3:20 Why do we need sports injury prevention programs for women?
• 4:22 Components of the Prep-to-Play program – specific skills, deceleration, jumping, landing, contact, sprinting, balance, strength, education
• 7:55 Zuzana – connect with the players and the coaches
• 9:26 Brooke – empower the players and coaches to lead their injury prevention programs
• 10:46 Build relationships with community clubs
• 12:15 What resources are available to clinicians?
• 14:11 Zuzana – the importance of having a baseline for athlete’s movement and performance
• 15:16 You can’t prevent all injuries, but there are other benefits of injury prevention programs
• 17:22 Is it our duty of care to run injury prevention programs?
• 18:25 ACL injuries and concussion, healthcare costs
• 19:41 How can injury prevention programs prevent concussions? Trunk and neck conditioning and learning how to tackle
• 23:25 Fear of doing contact drills in training?
• 24:20 HERsport research group – improving injury outcomes and performance
• 26:00 Women in Sports Congress 2022, get involved

Women in Sport Congress 2022: https://womeninsportcongress.org.au/

The Prep-to-Play program: https://coach.afl/prep-play-warm

Rugby Activate program: https://australia.rugby/participate/coach/coaching-resources/world-rugby-activate

FIFA-11+ https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/49/9/577

Netball Knee program: https://knee.netball.com.au/

The Get Set app for injury prevention: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/49/11/762

Brooke’s research profile https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/bpatterson

Brooke’s publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Tct0d9gAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

Contact Brooke directly: [e-mail]

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